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Oh, this site is still going to be called ASVS, and it's still going to be run by the people running it now.  We're just going to be shifting our primary focus a bit, and maybe... expand the site?

Courtesy of the Terran Empire - the Mirror Universe version of the United Federation of Planets.

Set to the tune of Billy Joel's "Piano Man":

Actually, from what I've heard, Star Trek: Discovery is doing fairly well, and so is Star Trek Online - Discovery's pilot alone was watched by 9.5 million viewers, and caused CBS All Access' revenues to double, so no, I wouldn't quite say that Trek is crashing and burning.  Not to mention all the books, comics, and other media that are actually doing well.

Also, would you believe that a lot of the racism and sexism (at least from what I've seen) in the SW fandom come from Brits?

I've also had plans to reinvigorate ASVS - albeit, a lot of them involve a shift from "Versus" into a more general sci-fi/fanfic-hosting/RP site.

There's also the "Atonement" idea I had.  Where we try to create a welcoming - not "everybody be nice 24/7", but rather "open to new ideas" - community.

But RayCav's right about the state of Sci-Fi Versus.  Star Trek and Doctor Who are the only two "super-active" sci-fi franchises at the moment, and as RayCav said, Doctor Who is so wildly inconsistent that using it in "versus" is a total nightmare (not to mention the "LOL, what's continuity?" mindset the writers have).  Interest in Star Wars movies is waning (though interest in Star Wars comics is going up).  Stargate?  That franchise sadly died with "Universe" (although it might come back if Roland Emmerich has his way).  Battlestar Galactica?  Dead.  Firefly?  Dead.  Babylon 5?  Might be dead, might get a reboot if the rumors I've heard are true.  Lexx?  Both dead AND obscure (I was one of only two kids in my entire high school who'd even HEARD of Lexx).  StarCraft?  Depends on whether or not StarCraft III gets made.  Warhammer 40,000?  While popular, even fans of that franchise admit that its community is hella toxic.  Mass Effect?  Dead and cremated.  Halo?  Still kickin', but not as hard as it once did.

So... what does that leave us with?  The Expanse?  Dune?  Not exactly the best choices...

But I refuse to give up hope.  Remember, franchises can come back like a phoenix rising from the ashes.  Star Trek did it in 2009.  Doctor Who did it in 2005.  Battlestar Galactica did it in 2003.  Hell, even Star Wars did it in 1991 with The Thrawn Trilogy (yes, Star Wars really was near death in the late 80's/early 90's).  And maybe... just maybe... they can do it again.  Maybe we can do it again, and do it right this time.

Jedi Master Spock has lost his passion debate-wise (though signs that he was starting to lose it date back to the era of the KirkSkywalker/StarWarsStarTrek clusterfuck - wait, was that really six years ago, already?  How time flies...), and the site has been experiencing worse technical issues than we have.

So.... any thoughts about this?

Moved to The Nexus.

So, by act of Random Omnipotent Being (ROB), about 50 or so Tribbles...

Have ended up on the planet Ach-To - specifically, the island that Luke was hiding out on.  During their stay, the Tribbles run afoul of some of Ach-To's most well-known animals, the Porgs:

For reasons known only to animals, the two species have now entered a direct competition for resources.  Which one comes out on top?  Tribbles, or Porgs?

Well, StarCraft DOES have canon novels that I can dig up for info - as well as a few comic books and a manga that I can dig through, since, well, they're also canon.

Made this a while back.   Only posted it on YouTube now.

The classic Star Wars parody!

So... how do the Scout and Arwing handle this?

Because that page uses outdated info, and going by the new canon, Turbolaser bolts are made of Tibanna plasma, which HAS mass.  So, there's some regular kinetic energy being delivered there.

That the Falcon can withstand megaton hits, given that the TIEs that are attacking it - TIE/fo Fighters, which are shielded and more powerful than TIE/ln Fighters - aren't even dishing out kilotons worth of damage, and are still considered a threat to the Falcon.

1 hour ago, Captain Seafort said:

ESB establishes that the Falcon can survive low megaton-range hits.  ANH establishes that TIEs are a threat to the Falcon after scoring dozens of hits.  Ergo, TIE laser fire is almost certainly low-mid kiloton range.

Which is contradicted by TFA:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sarFZJl3h0

Now, as for the other two combatants, the Scout and the Arwing.

Protoss Scouts are armed with dual photon blasters and antimatter missiles.  Of course, Protoss "photon" weapons are photon weapons in the same way that photon torpedoes are - meaning, their named after the photons produced by a matter-antimatter reaction.  So, let me correct this misnomer.  Protoss photon cannons and photon blasters actually fire blobs of high-energy antimatter sheathed in a field of psychic energy.  Scouts are shielded, and they use gravitic engines for sublight travel.  They're powered by Khaydarin crystals, which focus psychic energy into a usable form.

As for Arwings, these fighters are armed with twin "laser" cannons (which are probably more like SW "laser" weapons, meaning "laser-induced plasma" weapons, for reasons that'll be explained below) and nova bombs/smart bombs.  The reason I say that their lasers are more likely plasma weapons is because of the fact that doing a barrel roll generates a magnetic field which deflects them.  And lasers aren't effected by magnetic fields, but plasma is.

You mean THIS TIE Defender?

I'm pretty sure that this counts as megajoule, not megaton firepower.

The Fairwind was the personal ship of some Jedi who was also a nobleman.  It had a wooden hull, and was apparently spaceworthy.

Not making this up.

Alright, in this thread, two of the dumbest things to grace the old Star Wars Expanded Universe slug it out.

The first... is the Fairwind:

The second, are the "Season Rulers" of Endor (clockwise from top left: Sun King, Snow King, Leaf Queen, Flower Queen):

Who wins?

Alright, for this match, we're going to have a four-way dogfight between:

1 Danube-class Runabout

1 TIE Defender

1 Protoss Scout

1 Arwing

Which craft emerges victorious?

Dennis Werner - a tall man of mixed German and Native American descent, as well as the night supervisor - sat in the back of the van, reading the book he'd brought along for the ride - "Pushing Ice", by Alastair Reynolds, to be precise.  Always a fairly quiet man, he had barely paid any attention to his comrades' conversations.   However, from time to time, he'd look up from his book, just to see what his fellows were up to.  On the most recent "look-up", he saw Henry spit into his bottle, before drinking the water again.  That sight had made Dennis grimace - few things had managed to get that reaction from him, but this was definitely one of them.

"For fuck's sake, man, how can you DO that?" he asked.

Mostly, this thread came about due to the massive nerfing SW has been getting in recent years.  I was just curious to see if even a ridiculous number of TIEs could take on the big pile of fail that is the Oberth-class.

4 hours ago, Praeothmin said:

 

I have to agree, when Ties get hit with the self-exploding asteroids in ESB, there is what could be taken as a shield glow from the Ties that get hit...

I would say the Ties’ shields are probably weaker than the X-Wing shields, but they seem to be there...

Weak enough to otherwise be a non-factor, if Sabine, who actually designed weapons for the Empire, seemed surprised that TIE Defenders had shields.

It was intended partially as a joke, RayCav.

In the Battle of Sector 001 (aka Star Trek: First Contact), we see that Oberth-class ships DO have phaser emitters at least.

There's an Oberth in the bottom left corner firing phasers at the Borg Cube, though admittedly, it IS a bit difficult to see.

Actually, TIEs are unshielded (with the exception of TIE Defenders):